Your plans for March 12

I'm interested to hear what my fellow TL'ers have planned for March 12.

Will you immediately hit the ladder and make a run for GM?Dive right into the campaign and beat it on brutal in 1 day?

Please share your plans for the 12th, how you will obtain the game and what you will do for the first few days upon release.

Personally, I will probably play the campaign at a rate of 1 mission per ~2 days.I'm really looking forward to hitting the ladder right away.Depending on what league I am in after placement will dictate how much I ladder initially (a lower league placement will encourage me to play more (~10 games/day) compared to a mid-league placement (~2-3 games/day).

I pre-ordered from Amazon, depending on when it arrives (if it comes late), I will probably download a digital copy so I can get in on the action right away. I came to Wings of Liberty very late (December 2012), so I look forward to getting started on time for HOTS and competing on a level playing field (at least in theory )

Nothing satisfies me more than to own a Dark Voice or Tassadar portrait player while I still rock my default Thatcher portrait

I alternate between Thatcher and Kuchinsky depending on my mood. If I am winning and feeling relatively satisfied with my level of play atm then I play as Kuchinsky but if I am sucking and on a losing streak I rock Thatcher because it makes me laugh seeing it on the Versus screen and it lightens my mood pre-game.

On February 10 2013 21:40 Evangelist wrote:Campaign. I always play the campaign straight through. Probably on Hard.

Then ladder as Terran. Loving HoTS atm.

I agree. I prefer to play on Hard the first time.Brutal can be silly and it is so easy to get caught off-guard, particularly early game.I've lost quite a few missions on Brutal in the first 5 minutes from an early attack I was not ready for.

I will play the campaign, finish it at brutal (like I did with the WoL one) and then go to NA ladder to warm up, hit master there, go to EU ladder, Hit master there and then the real challenge, go Korean ladder and being owned by plat dudes!

I will go to a local game-store, within a ceremony and exactly 40 bucks in my pocket and together with my beste friend. I see us both buying a copy and then going back to my place, where our pcs are allready running. Then we are playing all night long a mixture between laddergames and campaign, looking to get the more achievements than the other one.

Watch HOTS pre-launch event and be sat waiting for servers to come up with energy drinks pre-fuelled with amazing yoghurt+bananas combo :D

Destroy the campaign on some difficulty above normal (but not brutal, that shit's annoying in the way that a gold player can beat it with a guide and enough time, but its borderline impossible to do for the first time even as a masters player without restarting each mission like 5-10 times simply because of doing something wrong - for example on Supernova - oops, i should have built like 3 more banshees really early on, or oops, i wasnt supposed to lose that much of my ground army, i clearly need it at >this< stage as well, it was not meant to be sacrificial)

After that, take Masters league and get a solid footing in every matchup. I did not play beta yet aside from a couple games because i have like 150+ms ping to the beta server.- With the amount of chaos in the new game it could shift everything a lot, so i plan to continue what i have been very recently (playing a lot, or even more than i have been) and get a hundred or two games down in the first 5-14 days to establish my position

I'll be playing the campaign all the way through while streaming it, got a few friends who like the SC lore but don't want to deal with playing it. Then I'll probably sleep a bit and rest up for a couple years of HotS laddering. I'll also set an appointment with a psychologist for that Friday since I play Zerg and get to fight hellbat drops and skytoss. ;P

Probably ladder Korea, best way to get good games early on (like in the beta), and if you can get high master/GM you can get a lot of sick games and replays against top players. Playing on NA, even if you get GM the people you play against will never leave you feeling "wow, that guy was SO much better than me, I can learn a LOT". I love that feeling from playing Koreans, it's a totally different kind of getting owned that you can only experience there :D